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Originally Posted by Mr_Draco

You have to remember, gaming is a global market. The US is the ONLY country in the world that has a steady, quality broadband connection to the internet. Even some of the better off countries such as Great Britain and Japan does not have as good a broadband connection as we do. Making the Xbox require a connection every 24 hours, will absolutely kill their global sales. Back when this was still a rumor, I found an article that listed only 2/3's of all 360's and PS3's in the US had internet connection, and only 1/3 of them on the global level.



I really have to disagree with that and so do many of the multi-platform developers but that is a different discussion.



360 is better with ONLINE games because of Live but games in general would have to go to the PS3.



It is nice that we will be able to do that but I'm not so sure I like the way they do it. To have access to this capability you have to install the full game onto the HDD. A blu-ray disc holds 50 gigs of data. A 500 gig HDD will only be able to hold 10 games at most, less if you take into account the space needed for saves and other data. I would much rather prefer to install a few hundred megs and then stream the game from the dev.

Maybe u can put the games on the cloud which why u have to be connected at all times maybe